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Undying Greek Poets, hallucination, and ChatGPT

While the success of the internet as a global town square is dubious at best with its pervasive misinformation and polarization, one area in which it is unquestionably beneficial is in language learning. I’ve made wonderful progress learning Greek in three years, with vast internet learning resources, online literature and newspapers, and virtual in-person lessons with native speakers. Given that a language-processing AI like ChatGPT can be trained on open source text available online and is increasingly trained on multiple languages, its use for linguistic and literary information gathering should be seen as promising. I’ve been reading the paper “Language […]

Journal - Poetry

Complaints of the righteous

The skies opened and complaints of the righteous rained down, a flood of soggy corrections clogging the gutters, jamming the wires. Their effect on the ecosystem is the subject of competing claims. But this much is certain: a sky full of grumbling is better, forever, than a sky full of bombs.